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i concur with kenny's second point. but there would be ways to minimize the 
legal risk for us, e.g. by redefining the terms of registration for domains. 
in essence i consider the questions of legal compliance a mere technical, 
although important one. we would need some anti-trolls, however.

i also concur with peter's view that this project is about freedom of speech 
mainly. but i must confess that his argument, at least to me, sounds somewhat 
elitist. i certainly don't mind being a member of an elitist organisation, 
who would? but the freedom of speech includes the freedom of dirty speech, 
else it would become freedom for the pure. and that's what i am certainly 
not. in essence, freedom of speech includes porn. freedom is indivisible.

this is after all a political decision, not the least part of it being the 
question: who do we want to be? some geeks living in some cozy nook of the 
internet we built for ourselves? or do we really want to achieve something? i 
am certainly not putting too fine a point upon it, but i think a carefully 
promoted .porn TLD might help us come out "of the closet".

--martin

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:13:29 +0000
Lenny Guy <openmailf AT gmail.com> wrote:

> There are some ISPs that support OpenNIC, but not many of them.
> 
> 
> 2013/2/12 <kennytaylor AT runbox.com>
> 
> >
> > 1) It may create some customer-side demand for ISPs to support OpenNIC TLD
> > resolution.
> >
> > 2) Probably not.  It could add a lot of administrative overhead (legal
> > compliance, copyright trolls, etc).  What happens when someone registers
> > playboy.porn or underage.porn?  It may be worth it to leave those hassles
> > to ICANN.
> >
> > Kenny
> >
> > ----- Start Original Message -----
> > Sent: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:44:29 -0500
> > From: "Aaron J. Angel" <thatoneguy AT aaronjangel.us>
> > To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
> > Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] [TLD Suggestion] .porn
> >
> > > I can think of two pertinent questions that have me feeling leery about
> > > this:
> > >
> > > 1) Will this really attract a lot of attention?  At present, W3Techs
> > > report that the xxx TLD accounts for less than two-hundredths of a
> > > percent of the web.
> > >
> > > 2) Even if the idea were to take hold and attract a sizable amount of
> > > attention, will it be the type of attention we want?
> > >
> > >

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